Crisis can create opportunity for change. The 2007–2008 food price crisis has demonstrated
that the existing structures of agricultural production and trade lend to food price volatility …

Encouragingly, people's movements for sustainable agriculture, food justice, and food
sovereignty (the democratization of the food system in favor of the poor) have worked for …

The fair trade and food sovereignty movements adopt very different strategies for
challenging the existing international agricultural trade regime. Food sovereignty contests …

The 'new normality'of food crises requires nuanced understandings of emergent responses.
Through an exploratory analysis of public-facing reports from major food governance actors …

Food sovereignty has been a fundamentally contested concept in global agrarian discourse
over the last two decades, as a political project and campaign, an alternative, a social …

A description of the current global food system, this book challenges our ethical
responsibility to the global poor and implicates us all for failing to curb global hunger and …

Food sovereignty, as a movement and a set of ideas, is coming of age. Rooted in resistance
to free trade and the globalizing force of neoliberalism, the concept has inspired collective …

The forces that contribute to hunger are wide ranging and complex. They include poverty,
high and volatile food prices, nutritional inadequacy of available foods, and agricultural …

The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global
Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to …

PART ONE Food Sovereignty in Theory and Policy Debates This page intentionally left
blank Introduction Our approach to food sovereignty as a response among producers and …